BUREAUCRACY
BUREAUCRACY
Erecting a large screen so that you can watch the fireworks, in case your view is obstructed by the large screen that was just erected.
(2008 China Olympics)
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Perfect example of government in action.
I’m sorry that you don’t believe in competition – don’t you see that the government NEEDED to elect that screen so that you would have a CHOICE to watch a monitor?
They elected the screen? Was it running unopposed?
I demand a recount.
hope the voting screens dont glitch again
Did anyone ever stop to think that, maybe, there was something else being played on the screen before the fireworks started… -_-
Yes, that was discussed deep in this thread. But we need to be able to laugh at it. It is one of the few LOLs lately.
be much cooler if below fireworks display they was playing hard core midget porn
Is that to play Guitar Hero Commies III after?
No No No!!! It’s to play Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell8; Retaking of the Porta Potty!!
Logic fail.
Isn’t this more irony?
Isn’t Bureaucracy = to Irony? Or is it more equal to stupidity and waste.
I always think of bureaucracy as annoying to the point of insanity. And the movie “Brazil”.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film)]
That was one weird-ass movie.
No, Bureaucracy = redundancy.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Extended efforts to expedite ex-pending expenditures have expired.
my head hurts
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
But the screen is HD!!
Looks better than real life.
I recently got the chance to see the Disney movie Earth on Blue ray on a 55′ HDTV and I swear…. it really was in higher def than my eyes see. Beautiful… but scary.
My family plugged up an old NES to our 32in plasma, and has been having a blast with it. I don’t know if I’m not up to my old playing standards because of not playing on a 13in low def screen, or if I’m just turning into an old fart….
Whats sort of cool, is now that you are older, a bigger TV makes it the same proportion as when you were a kid! But the plasma…. I be those colors never looked so bright!
Also…. i get my ass beat when i pick up one of those tiny NES controlers. If it isn’t a PSX or an xbox controller, i feel like I am not holding a real control. Plus… when you only have 4 buttons, somehow the game seems harder. weird.
(I think it’s plasma, lol. What ever the new high def is)
And thank you, but I have good eyesight, so it’s HUGE, just too big to take it all in. And I don’t remember none of the shorcuts and things. Luck my wife remembers them ALL. (now you KNOW I am required by law {state law} to go online and learn all the cheats)
Down, Up, Left, Left, A, Right, Down!
A,B,A,C,A,B,B
Its the Mortal Combat Blood Codes!
But those were SNES and Genesis though.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. I think that was the Contra code for more lives. Games really were a lot harder back then. You usually could only die three times during the whole game. Now if you die you usually just re-spawn wherever you were when you died.
There you go. The Konami code.
*shares cookies*
Yep! Thats the one! Awesome!
I used to like that most games you could beat in an hour and go about your life. Now the games ate like 65 hours of game play. And who the hells has time for that? I play until I can’t get past something, and then I leave the game for a few days, and when I come back, I have no idea whats going on.
SELECT start. People always forget the “select” part of the code. Geez, people!
Isn’t the select only for the two-player code?
To be honest, I have no clue, LOL. It’s what my husband (who is a major game geek) always rattles off when asked for the Code. And he says it with a capital C like that every time. You can hear the reverence in his voice.
Anyone know the Super Mario 3 blood codes? You know you want to see green ooze flowing when Koopa dies. Or a nice mushroom gravy when you stomp em…..
My son is playing Super Mario 3 & 4 on Game Boy (yay for rereleases!) and he asked me “what happens to the mushrooms and turtles when you stomp on them?” Uh…I guess they just go away. “But what HAPPENS to them?” I guess you killed them. Hadn’t really thought of what a violent vigilante the Mario Bros. were.
dhoti’s right – you only hit select if you’re doing 2-player. but the game was so much awesomer in 2-player mode.
up down left right b a start was the extra lives for Super C, just in case you were curious
that game was crazy hard, plus the code gave you like half the lives the contra code gave you.. such a bummer
Lame.
A real geek would have cited the Konami code.
Oh I’m not real.
Virtual VNV is vital.
Lol…VNV, I was lying in bed watching Mythbusters when I got home from my night job last night and I saw this Miller High Life commercial, which reminded me of your ideas on the rich and what to do about them. “Closest to the track, and farthest from reality!”
Thats an awesome commercial! The guy’s delivery is great! Victory for common sense!
I thought you’d like that one!
Did you see the one where he was in the VIP lounge at the baseball game? He walks in and is like “Can any of yall tell me what inning it is?” and when noone answered he was like “Thats what I thought, this High Life has got to go.” And he tries to cheer for a play on the field and he realizes that he is in a glass box and he says “They can’t even hear me through this glass.”
I know this has “redistribute the wealth” implications, which I love, but I also think it a step toward what we were talking about a few lols back. The little tidbit about people learning to not covet material goods above all else bit. This commercial is making fun of the wealthy and making it seem like their lifestyle is rediculous. And it sells the idea that its ok to just be the middle class. My only problem with this commercial is its saying “Its ok to be middle class if you drink my beer.” Which although part of the meaning is nice, its still selling vice.
But its still hilarious.
Yeah; I suspect one of the reasons I can get along ok with you is that I grew up in a house where if my dad said the word “rich”, it was probably followed by the word “bastards”….
I don’t entirely share his animosity, but I do tend to view them as something very alien to my own life.
I don’t really think of beer as a vice, per se, more like a major food group, like chocolate or bacon.
What’s the recommended daily serving on Chocolate? Or bacon for that matter? I’m getting the feeling that I’m malnurished.
I think it’s 3 servings of chocolate and at least 2 of bacon. Remember, kids, you can fit extra bacon into your diet by adding it to other things!
Darn it and I just got back from Taco Bell and forgot to tell them to add bacon!
I’m not sure I would trust bacon from Taco Bell. Their beans look like burnt corn flakes before they rehydrate them. Who knows what abominations they have come up with for bacon.
From what I can tell it’s ok, but one can never be sure with Taco Bell.
Tastes like bacon to me!
Ditto that, diss. It’s bacony!
It’s the Abomination Bacon that tastes so good. Mmmmmm, tastes like evil……
Their “cheezy” sauce tastes like spoilt milk… ick. I had to throw a burrito away the other day, you just don’t expect that taste on a bean burrito.
Plus Miller is making a tidy profit on that product I imagine… That makes it even more hilarious.
That is the most ironic thing of all. The wealthy making ads bashing the wealthy so that other people go give the wealthy money.
Ironic, yes, but it WORKS. How many people are going to buy the beer and think “I’m feeding a multibillion dollar corporation.” How many are going to buy the beer after seeing that commercial and think “This is beer for joe six-pack. Stick it to the man!” Okay, not many, but probably more than the one thinking they’re feeding a multibillion dollar corporation. Now, here in St. Louis, we tend to think about the multibillion dollar corporation more since that whole InBev thing.
I know. Sometimes I feel like the deck is so rigged there is no fair way to play the game. Which is why i had to invent my Dance, Dance, Socialist Revolution game so I could entertain myself and others.
Aren’t most consumers thinking something like “Bud…meh… Bud Light…light meh…, Old Milwaukee…they still make that?…, Corona, Miller High Life — Oooh, it’s on sale this week, I’ll get that.”?
Miller is crap. Budweiser FTW!
Rando, have you tried the Bud Light Golden Wheat? It’s pretty good.
Some days are better than others…..
I have a six pack of golden wheat in my fridge right now! I love me some wheat beer!
Wait, VNV….you have a whole six pack of golden wheat….I’m out….I think some redistribution is in order here, sir!
Well its no fun drinking them alone! Bring your glitter protest boards and lets get wasted on wheat bear ((I will of course have to buy more)) and make harassing protests boards. Did you see the one on failblog the other days that said “Down with this sort of thing.” We could totally make some more clever than that!
How about “I heartily disapprove of whatever it is you are doing this week!”? Or, come to think of it, “Stop the Killer Lightbulbs!”
I must be “rich” b/c I have Samual Adams.
Everyone knows rich people don’t drink beer.
They do cocaine!
Who’s Cocaine and does she dress nice?
I’m not sure how she dresses, ILPB, but I have it on good authority that she don’t lie.
I have 1 Michelobe Ultra, 1 Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale, 1 Genesis Stout, a bottle of Schmit Sohne Auslasse, and I already drank the Samuel Smith Pale Ale. My dad keeps giving me all kinds of odd stuff, wanting me to try it.
Miller and Coors are the light weight stuff, but I actually like them. But I prefer Michelobe light or ultra. And I must say that the all have plenty of Vitamin P in them.
No, diss, but I’ve been wanting to. Apparently it’s one of the free ones to sample at Grant’s Farm. I’ve been wanting to go there for the Halloween celebration…
JAC–I like your taste in beer. I do prefer Michelob over Bud or Bud Light, but it costs more and I’m a cheap ass. LOL
As for the wheat beers, I fell in love with Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer at an Applebee’s once. My brother made me try it, and I was like “wow, that one actually tastes good.”
Radno, I’m all for pinching a penny, but the difference is usually 30-50 cents per six pack. And if you check the different grocery stores, you can usually get a 12 pack for the same as BUD in convience stores. I think it’s $9, and maybe bud is $8.79 for a 12 pack. I don’t buy enough to keep up with it.
I know, JAC. With our budget, I always feel guilty buying beer in the first place, so when I do, I try to keep the damage minimal.
I feel your pain Radno. I might buy 30-40 beers in a year. So when I do, I go for the good stuff.
Budweiser? WTF?
I don’t mind if you say Miller is crap, I’m from Wisconsin and I’m proud of our beer heritage and I happen to like Miller for a cheap beer, but Budweiser is hardly good beer.
If you had said Lienenkugels, Sam Adams, Blue Moon, or any other host of premium beers….ok, but you choose Budweiser?
I suppose you watch NASCAR and eat your steak with ketchup?
Sorry Rando. I had to.
I hate NASCAR. I eat my steak as is. Smart ass.
But anyway, as a St. Louisan, it is my duty to help fuel the local economy by buying Anheuser-Busch products. And between Miller & Bud, I’ll take Bud 8 days a week. I bought Miller Lite once and ended up throwing them away. I was just talking about your average beer. Premium beers are a different story, naturally.
You mentioned Blue Moon, and that’s another of my favorites. Sam Adams I’ve never really gotten into, but I don’t have the extra cash to splurge on trying all the cool varieties. Beer is mostly for when I go to someone else’s house. LOL
This is a long post about beer from someone who doesn’t even drink it that often. LMAO
If you have a garden, don’t throw away the lousy beer. Put some in a saucer and use it to drown slugs. Keeps your hosta and other plants from getting slimed and eaten at the same time…and the slugs die happy, too!
Let us not forget that without the rich people who own the horses there would be nothing to watch…unless the government got into the horse race business. Of course that would mean that all the horses would have to be equal and there could not be any declared winner
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Well what would happen is that the public would own the horses. And the track. People would still be able to see them, people could still be hired to rasie and care for them. It would be basically the same as now, except betting would be pointless. Instead it would just be a fun day out just to watch animals race.
But then you got to worry about PETA…
that’s called nascar…
Actually, I don’t, but I am required by law to tease you.
Well, arguably horseracing wasn’t always the multimillion dollar industry it is now, but as long as people have had domesticated horses there’s been horseracing, and who’s to say it wasn’t more fun that way?
If it moves, people will race it. End of story.
I can see the explosion’s Nipples!!!
Tits a war-drobe malfunction!
It’s the breast fireworks show ever!
Just don’t try motorboating fireworks…
Must be a cold evening?!
Would that explain the Lady Gaga breast fireworks thing?
I had to google that. I don’t think ANYTHING can explain that…except that Lady Gaga is a media whore?
From what I can tell, that is an insult to media whores.
True. Lady Gaga only exists for the coverage (by the media–obviously not by clothing). The other folk actually think that they have something to share with the world!
I’m sure they showed absolutely no other part of the Olympics on that screen whatsoever. Nope. None. Not a second.
thank you, sweet jesus can no one think for 2 seconds in front of their faces?
Clearly the screen wasn’t there for the fireworks. It was just the fact that the picture was taken while only fireworks were going off, and that enabled the joke. You are supposed to run with it and make it more funny. Not insult for people seeing the irony.
See my above responce.
Care troll cares more than we do…about the screen?
GUARDS!
Bring me the forms I need fill out to have her taken away!
Those forms need to be signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, lost, found, queried, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighter.
I just choked on my lunch. That was beyond awesome!
Isn’t it! As much as I’d like to take credit for making that I can’t. It’s all from the wonderfully twisted mind of the brilliant Douglas Adams.
Oh, I know. I have both the book and the movie nearly memorized. Actually, I have the enitre Hitchhicker’s series in one convinent novel. I do believe I shall have to reread in the near future.
Yes! I found that book at a rummage sale for Meals on Wheels for a dollar. Best dollar I ever spent!
*Gives Mina big, geeky HGTTG hug*
I have the entire series in a massive, hernia educing hard cover! It’s literature AND a step-ladder.
You know, there’s new ones in the series but not written by DA. I refuse to read them!
*Geeky hugs HelOnWheels back*
Wait, someone else tried to write a HGTTG novel? Blasphemous!
Exactly. Check it out {http://www.amazon.com/Another-Thing-Eoin-Colfer/dp/1401323588/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256250130&sr=1-10}
One of my customers was the mental health hospital in Gastonia NC, (Govt subsidized) where 6 different departments would order 20+ cases of paper weekly, for EACH dept. Didn’t seem to matter how much they had on hand, I had to find somewhere to stack the overstock in crowded supply rooms. One dept in particular also had their copy machines and shredders in the supply room, and I would tease them about being the worst offender of overstock, with an 8 foot wall of paper on one side. The standing joke was that they had to make a copy of each form before they could shred it, to prove that said form was shredded.
heheh. you said erected.
heh heh. Yeah yeah, and he said fire!! Fire fire!!
Are you threatening me??
Remember when they weren’t allowed to say fire anymore? That was the worst form of censorship I can remember. They didn’t care if they humped the couch or cut their fingers off in shop class, but don’t say fire.
Exactly. Beavis could go around screaming he needed “TP for my bunghole” but not fire!
I forgot what page the beer conversation is on, but you talked me into opening the Genesis Extra Stout. Wow, rich.
The screen is to provide captioning for the hearing impaired.
“Boom”
“Bang!”
“Whistle”
“Ka-pow!”
That’s both hilarious and entirely possible.
Stop abusing that squirrel you creep!!
Yay…T_T Now let me shoot you and the Squirrel, Bob.
… and Rocky collapsed in the corner.
Fail
Are you guys dumb or just plain ignorant?
The screen is probably used for projecting the on-stage performances. During the firework, they have nothing better to show but the fireworks. They won’t just show the faces of the performers/hosts on stage during the fireworks……
Comment reading FAIL. Humor FAIL.
Anyone ranking lower than grade 19 must fill out a form in triplicates (and stamped 5 times mind you!) to make comments on teh wintarwebs from now on!
Don’t quote me regulations! I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to revise the color of the book that regulations in.
WE KEPT IT GRAY.